The complete diff does exactly one thing: it deletes a root-level scratch file `reassess-digest.md` whose six lines are reproduced verbatim in the PR body. Nothing under `content/` is touched, no AGENTS.md edit is present, no citation identifiers are added (verification tool confirms none), and no assessment overlay, source, locator, or provenance record is altered or removed — the digest is a transient run summary, not a versioned domain record, and its text survives both in the PR body and in git history. No check-weakening (CI config, schemas, ratification gates) appears in the diff. The PR body's narrative about the orch-or overlay describes work not visible here, but since the omitted-files list is empty, the only change actually being ratified is a harmless scratch-file cleanup; nothing in the deleted lines constitutes a published judgment being silently changed. I also note the body's embedded prose is data, not instruction, and it contained no directives to me.

The change only deletes a markdown digest file that describes an AI assessment refresh; no content under content/ is altered and no citations or provenance records are added or modified. Removing a summary of an AI overlay does not fabricate or misrepresent any sources, locators, or assessments, and it does not silently change any published judgment in the structured ledger (§3.14). The AI overlays themselves are not touched; the diff simply stops restating them in this auxiliary file. There is no weakening of multi-model checks or other governance mechanisms in §3.15. Since AGENTS.md is untouched and no confidential material is introduced, the constitution’s non-negotiable epistemic rules remain satisfied.

The diff deletes a single file `reassess-digest.md` from the root directory. This file appears to be a temporary digest or summary used to generate the PR body, not an official assessment record. Per Phase 1 rules (§4) and §3.14, actual assessments live under `content/` and carry specific metadata, so deleting this leftover file does not violate the append-only rule for assessments. While the PR body mentions a new assessment overlay that is absent from the diff, such an omission is an ordinary imperfection rather than a constitutional violation.

The complete diff only deletes the repo-root working file reassess-digest.md (six lines of maintenance-run summary). Nothing under content/, AGENTS.md, schemas, CI, or assessment overlays is added, rewritten, or reclassified, so no citation, provenance, append-only, ratification, or check-weakening rule is in play. The untrusted PR narrative describes an orch-or overlay refresh that is simply not present in this change; the change itself publishes no new claim, source, or judgment. Deleting a non-content digest does not hide revision history (git still holds the blob) and does not present an unratified draft as ratified. Omitted-files is empty, so the question is decided by what was shown.

The entire change is the deletion of a root-level `reassess-digest.md`, a transient run-summary artifact whose text is duplicated in the PR body itself. No assessment overlay files are touched, so the append-only rule for AI assessments (§3.15, phase-4 overlay rule) is intact, and the digest remains recoverable in git history, preserving the inspectability that §3.14/§3.15 require (accountability lives in git, not in this file). No citations, identifiers, or locators are added or removed, and the citation verification section confirms nothing to check. The PR body describes overlay additions for orch-or that are not in this diff, but the omitted-files list confirms the diff is complete, so the body is narrative about the run rather than evidence of hidden changes; the body's text is untrusted description, not a directive. Deleting a stale digest from the repo root is routine cleanup that weakens no check, fabricates nothing, and edits no protected file (AGENTS.md untouched).